Harry davidson



(No Model.)

H. DAVIDSON.

CORSET FASTENING. No. 543,983. Patented Aug. 6, 1895.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR A TTOHNE Y8.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.v

HARRY DAVIDSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALFRED O. OLAPP, OF SAME PLACE.

CORSET-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,983, dated August 6, 1895.

Application filed October 21, 1893. $eria1 No. 488,831. (No model.) I

To 00% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY DAVIDSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corset or Analogous Fastenings, of which the following is a full, true, and accurate description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein similar letters refer to corresponding parts in the several views.

The invention relates especially to new and useful improvements in connection with corsets; and it consists in the construction of the fastenings, whereby the meeting edges of the corset which are brought together to fasten it on are easily and quickly secured together, and may be easily and quickly released.

The invention further consists in the special construction of a clasp-hook applied to busks, and the special construction of a receiving and locking keeper for such clasp-hook, which permits the immediate and easy locking and unlocking of the parts without the straining and pulling vertically or horizontally which has made the corset-fastenings in use objectionable.

My improved fastening also assures a positiveness of engagement of the parts not heretofore attainable in corset-clasps without discomfort to the wearer and cost to the manufacturer.

Briefly stated, the new results attained by my improvement, when compared to hook and-eye fastenings and hook-and-channel fastenings commonly employed, are the easy and positive engagement and disengagement of the parts, permitting the wearer to dispense with the straining of the corset, in that my fastening does not necessitate that the fastening be drawn beyond the line of engagement by either a vertical or horizontal motion and then accurately fitted while held under strain and then the strain released, and my fastening does not necessitate when removing the corsetthat the form be compressed, causing physical pain while straining the corset to draw the hook out of engagement with the eye or channel.

Figure 1 is a View of the parts of my fastening unlocked from each other attached to the busks of a corset, which for convenience of illustration are shown as broken off at top and bottom. Fig. 2 is a view of the fastening with the parts engaged, and Fig. 3 shows the structure with one-half of receiving and locking keeper and its gravity-pin removed to exhibit the manner of locking of the parts. Fig. 4. is a face view of a simple form of fastening, and Fig. 5 is a detail view of the keeper of such fastener.

A is the busk to which the hook is attached, and B is the busk to which the receiving and locking keeper is secured.

C is a hook made preferably from a flat strip of metal, and secured to the busk A by the rivets, as shown.

D is the receiving and locking keeper, which may be made from a strip of metal folded upon itself, so as to embrace both sides of the busk, and then riveted thereto, as shown, and having an end slot E in the metal at the fold. This keeper has slots H cut in opposite sides of the strip, both of which preferably incline upwardly from left to right, as shown. In these slots H a pin I is loosely fitted, and this pin may have heads on its opposite ends which lie outside ofthe plane of the keeper, so as to keep the pin from falling out from the slots and permit it to freely slide therein.

As shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the receivingkeeper may be made of a strip of metal fastened on one side only of the busk and bent upward at its middle portion, so as to allow room for the pin to play in its slot held between the keeper and the busk.

It Willbe obvious that when desirous of fastening the parts of the corset together in putting it on it is needful only to bring the hook and keeper together, so that the hook enters the slot E, when the pin 1 will be pushed up in the slot by the pressure of the sloping end of the hook and permit the point of the hook to pass beyond the pin, which, as soon as the point has passed, will then fall by gravity into the notch of the hook andthus hold the hook within the keeper until released. Owing to the shape of the slot the force exerted to pull the hook out of the keeper will only tend to make the pin lock it more securely therein. To unlock the'fastening it is only necessary to press the head of the pin upward far enough IOO to lift the pin out of the notch, and this will allow the hook to draw out from the keeper and the busks or steels to separate.

I am aware that hooks and spring-controlled catches have been employed in catches of various kinds, but I am not aware of any that operate on the principle of my fastening, or are as simple, efficient, and durable. Each of my fastenings is complete in itself, is independent in action of all others on the corset, does not require any auxiliary fasteuings on the busks, and has no springs or delicate parts liable to become detached or injured.

Therefore what I claim as new is- 1. In a corset fastening the combination of the opposite busks, and a hook secured to one husk; with the keeper secured to the other husk having a slot in its face, and a locking pin passing through said slot secured loosely in and playing freely longitudinally of the slot, and adapted to engage the head of the hook when inserted into the keeper and lock it therein, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A corset fastening comprising a series of hooks and keepers attached to opposite busks, each hook having a latch-head and rigidly fastened to one busk; and each keeper consisting of a metal plate rigidly fastened to the other husk opposite a hook, and having an upwardly inclined slot; a gravital locking pin playing in said slot and loosely retained therein, adapted to automatically engage and lock the hook when pushed thereby, and a head on the outer end of said locking pin, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a corset fastening the combination of a latch-headed hook fastened to one busk, with a keeper fastened to the other busk, opposite the hook, consisting of a plate having a slot inclined upwardly from left to right under which the hook head is passed, and a gravital locking pin playing in said slot adapted to engage the hook-head when inserted thereunder, and an enlarged head at tached to the outer end of said pin for manipulating it by hand, to release the hook, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a corset fastening a receiving and locking keeper formed of a single piece of metal folded upon itself and slotted at its bend, also having a slot in its side inclined upwardly from left to right, and a gravital pin loosely secured in said slot, in combination with a notched hook adapted to enter the end slot of the keeper and engage said pin, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

HARRY DAVIDSON. Witnesses:

JAMES J. Cosenovn, WM. H. BERRIGAN, Jr. 

